Degrees and Honours
Ph.D. (Cantab)
Profile
Anna Git is the overall coordinator for Natural Sciences and a Director of Studies for Biological Sciences. She is a Senior Visiting Scientist at the Department of Biochemistry. Prior her current appointment at Lucy, she was a Lu Gwei Djen Research Fellow.
Research Interests
Transmissible RNA; non coding RNAs in breast cancer; anything RNA-related, really!
Publications (selected)
2022 Mitochondrial genomes in Perkinsus decode conserved frameshifts in all genes. Gornik SG., Flores V., Reinhardt F., Erber L., Douvropoulou O., Lassadi I., Einarsson E., Mörl M., Git A., Stadler PF., Pain A. and Waller RF. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(10):msac191
2022 ncRNAseq: simple modifications to RNA-seq library preparation allow recovery and analysis of mid-sized non-coding RNAs. Minshall N., Chernukhin I., Carroll JS. and Git A. BioTechniques 72(1):21-28
2021 Expression of alternative nitrogenases in Rhodopseudomonas palustris is enhanced using a novel genetic toolset for rapid, markerless modifications. Du Toit J-P., Lea-Smith DJ., Git A., Hervey JRD, Howe CJ. and Pott RWM. ACS Synthetic Biology 10(9):2167-2178
2020 Enzyme- and gene-specific biases in reverse transcription of RNA. Minshall N. and Git A. Scientific Reports 10(1):8151
2016 Double-stranded microRNA mimics can induce length- and passenger strand-dependent effects in a cell type-specific manner. Goldgraben M.A., Roslin R., Rueda O.M., Caldas C. and Git A. RNA 22(2):193-203
2013 The shaping and functional consequence of the miRNA landscape in breast cancer. Dvinge H.*, Git A.*, Gräf S., Salmon-Divon M., Curtis C., Sottoriva A., Zhao Y., Hirst M., Armisen J., Miska EA., Chin SF., Provenzano E., Turashvili G., Green A., Ellis I., Aparicio S. and Caldas C. Nature 497(7449):378-82
